Al-Qaeda ‘chief’ planned attacks

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ISRAELI investigators have found evidence that a senior al-Qaeda figure travelled to Somalia to mastermind the terrorist attacks in Mombasa.

Sources close to the inquiry said there was evidence that the attacks may have been planned in Pakistan or Afghanistan and that an al-Qaeda operative had passed instructions in Somalia to a local team. The sources said that the serial numbers of the launchers for the missiles fired at an Israeli charter aircraft were similar to those discovered in Afghanistan. The Sam-7 fired at a US aircraft in Saudi Arabia this year was from the same batch.